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Baby-food Maker Finds Harvest Time A Strain
It was the first week of summer and already it was too hot. Too hot for peas, anyway, and too hot for the harvest schedule that had been set up at planting time 50 days... more »
Community Gathers At Terhune Orchards
When Pam and Gary Mount bought Terhune Orchards in 1975, they weren't just looking to run a farm. They wanted to create a community gathering place, and they seem to have succeeded. More than 500,000... more »
Farm Market Successful With Second Store
A second location has expanded business options for Peaceful Valley Orchards, to the point where the original location is no longer as pivotal as it used to be. In 2001, Meredith and Jeremy Compton bought... more »
Farm’s Switch To Vegetables Changes 250-year Tradition
The national bicentennial farm has been in the family since 1756. Until the 1980s, it primarily produced tobacco, soybeans and corn. At that time, the Holden brothers diversified from tobacco and planted an initial three-acre... more »
Wholesale Apples Give Way to Variety, Agritainment
For 30 years, Peter Barton was a commercial apple grower with 200 acres of apples. "It was easier then," he said. "We were properly equipped, our minds were focused and we worked on a schedule."... more »
Taste, Tolerance Remain Popular Trends For Vegetable Industry
Eating quality, disease resistance and shelf life are the three key talking points in the vegetable seed industry right now, according to industry insiders. However, there are other characteristics seed officials are excited about. Each... more »
We’re Paying the Price of A Poor Energy Policy
With gasoline prices nearly double what they were a year ago, it's clear we're paying the price of our poor choices in the past 15 years. And we'll pay more dearly, too, because high gas... more »
New Michigan Vegetable Council President Optimistic
Kent Karnemaat was just a lad in grade school when his father, Al, decided he'd worked for other farmers long enough and bought his own farm. Now, 30 years later, that farm has become one... more »
Letters to the Editor
Energy Policy Article Rings True I couldn't believe my eyes when I read your editorial "We're paying the price of poor energy policy", because I just assumed it would one more muddle-headed chemical-welfare farmer market... more »
Straw ‘Tractor’ Hauls in Customers
Gro-Moore Farms claims to have the largest John Deere in North America. It's about 18 feet tall and 30 feet long. An "unbelievable" number of people have taken pictures of it. There's one drawback, however.... more »
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